48% of GDP and 415
million new jobs in next 20 years #asiamatters China’s Digital Economy Explodes ASIATECHRESEARCH China’s digital economy, already home to the world’s largest population of internet and smartphone users, is likely to create 415 million jobs by 2035, bolstering technology’s share to 48 per cent of gross domestic product, according to forecasts by the Boston Consulting Group and AliResearch Institute. - South China Morning Post 10 Jan 2017

#asiamatters ASIATECHRESEARCH Key to the
growth of Southeast Asia’s digital frontier is the movement of Risk Capital out of China into regions seeking Outsized Returns.Alibaba, TenCent etc will be key to Southeast Asia’s growth in the next 5 years.

Future growth will only be
accelerated by the shift of Risk Capital out of China #asiamatters Southeast Asia beats expectations ASIATECHRESEARCH Southeast Asia is now the world’s third largest region for internet users — with more people online than the entire U.S. population — and internet is having a bigger impact on the region than originally thought, according to a new report co-authored by Google. -Tech Crunch 12 Dec 2017

Invests US$2.9 bn in massive
tech-fuelled supermarket chain #asiamatters AliBaba Drives Innovation ASIATECHRESEARCH There are chefs in-store ready to cook up what you buy, which you can then eat in the canteen

#asiamatters ASIATECHRESEARCH If China pursues
the structural reforms and technological upgrading needed to maintain rapid economic growth, its middle class should exceed one billion people in 2030, up from 157 million in 2009. - Lee Jong-Wha, Hufﬁngton Post

#asiamatters ASIATECHRESEARCH In my grandfather’s
day, setting up a business is about survival, and today it is about improving standards of living, like buying properties, taking a holiday, the next generation of iPad, Ferrari and Porsche. People are creating better lives for themselves - Kennedy Cheng, CEO of Lxpert